Definition of cislunar
: lying between the earth and the moon or the moon's orbit
- cislunar space
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The space agency has spent the last decade building the Space-Launch System and Orion, a rocket and spacecraft intended to carry people into deep space but also to build a cislunar way station called the Deep-Space Gateway.
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Step two involves the international spaceflight community coming together to build cyclers that ply cislunar space, taking people on trips to the moon and back.
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First Known Use of cislunar
circa 1877
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